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Gyude Moore Reflects on Hichilema’s Victory in Zambia and Why China is Calling in Its Loans in Kenya

by Eric Olander

A lot of major developments this week in the China-Africa space following Zambia’s landslide election victory for opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and new debt repayment challenges in Kenya for the embattled Standard Gauge Railway.

Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and host of CGD’s new “Lagos to Mombasa” podcast, has been closely following these events and joins Eric & Cobus from Washington to also reflect on how what happened in Kabul might impact U.S. foreign policy towards Africa.

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